Improvement in seal-bolt for rail wat-cars



l @cimiteri i time PETER H. MANN AND GRIFFITH P. TERRvfoR ALBANY, NEW YORK,

'ASSIGNGRS TO ANDREW B. ULINE AND G. G. KIDDER.

Leners Patent Nb.v 84,891, dem Beamter 15, 186s.

IMPROVEMENT SEAL-BOLT FOR RAILWAY-CARS.

To all'whom 'it may concern:

Be it imown that we, PETER H. MANN and GRIFFITH P. TERRY, of Albany, in the county of Albany, and State of New York, have invented a new and valuable 4Improvement in Seal and Lock-Pins for Railroadars;

and we do hereby declare that the following is a full,

place ready for use; and

Figure 3 is an external view of our device after the seal has been used.

Our invention has reference to a pin to he used in the fianches of a car-door and the door-casing, in the place usually occupied by the haspof the lock.

To this pin is attached a leaden seal, so adjusted and arranged that it shall serve as a substitute for a lock,

and alsoas a means for detecting between what sta` tions a car has been broken open. l

The pin may be used as a substitute for a lock, or simply as an instrument for detection, at the will of the operator. In the latter case, an additional opening must be made through the flanch of the door, and the casing thereof, adapted to the size of the pin.

The nature of our invention or improvement may be said to consist not only in providing the tongue B of the pin A with a slot, c, to receive the pivot-pin d, and, at its lower end, with a recess, i, but in providing the lower part of the, tongue-socket or slot of the lockingpin with a projection, L, to enter the said recess ofthe tongue, when the tongue is wholly closed into the socket, the whole being so as to keep the tongue in place within the socket during the operation of inserting the locking-pin into those parts of a car which are destined to receive it.

Our invention also involves the employment of a scallop, j, as hereinafter described.

The letter A, of the drawings, represents the pin proper. It is constructed with a slot, `as shown on all the figures, but more especially on fig. 1, wherein the front side ofthe pin is broken ofi', to exhibit the shape of the slot, and the manner in which the tongue of the pin is operate-d. i

The letter B is the tongue of the pin. It is made in the form represented on hg. l, and is operated as therein shown.

Letter c is a slot in the tongue B, by which said tongue is allowed to move back and forth, guided and held by the small pin (l.

Letter h exhibits a hole made through the tongue, such hole being adapted to receive the seal H. This seal is made of lead, or other soft metal. -Its form, previous to use, is shown 0n iig. 2, and its form, when in actual use, is shown on fig.- 3.

, Letter f is a piece scolleped out of the side ofthe pin A, at the point indicated, the object of which is hereinafter mentioned.

Letter g is an opening in the thumb-piece or broad end of the pin A, by which said pin is suspended to the door-casing or door by any suitable chain.

The lower en d of the tongue B 'has a concavity or recess, fi, made'in it, to receive and t upon a corresponding convexity or projection, k, arranged at the lower end of the slot of the pin A.

The convex end of the slot in pin A, and the concave end of the tongue B, are adapted each to the form of the other, and serve to hold the tongue within the slot until it is passed through the hanches of the door and its casing.

In cold weather, when not in actual use, the tongue is liable to be frozen iirmly in the slot. To enable the operator to release it 'when thus frozen, we have scalloped out the piccef. .By striking the side ofthe tongue shown at point f, it is forced downward until the pointthereof is shown at the lower side of the slot. The hammer is then used on the end of thetonguethus shown, and by that means the saine is eii'ectually released.

v Qur device is operated as follows, to wit:

The pin is passed through its proper opening, and the seal H is placed in its place, h. Pincers, the gains of which are provided with a suitable markor letter, to indicate the station at which they are used, are then clasped over both ends. of the seal, pressing the small end thereof inward until it assumes the form shown on iig. 3. 'At the same time, and by the same process,

the mark or letter indicating the station is marked upon the seal.

As the car moves along its track iromstation to staf tion, the baggage-man, or other designated ofiicer, clasps the seal withpince'rs provided for that purpose, and indents thereon the mark or letter indicating the` station at which such marks or imprints were made.

By these Ineans it -may always be known with positive certainty between what stations a robbery has been committed.

We do, not claim the combination of a bolt or pin, and a tongue pivoted thereto, and having one or more holes to receive a seal, for the purpose of holding the tongue at an angle with the bolt.

What we claim as our invention, is-

The combination and arrangement ofthe slot c, the recess i, and the projection k with the bolt A, the tongue B, and their pivot or pin cl.

In testimony that We claim the above, we have hereunto subscribed our namesvin the presence of two Witnessesj l APETER H. MANN.

GRIFFITH P. TERRY. Witnesses;

J. H. DRAPER, H. P. DRAPER. 

